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Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 72 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo (& today a video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

submitted 23 days ago • 54 comments

I don’t like ”skeets” because it reminds me of Tweet and of the other place. Yuck! Can we just call them posts?

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

submitted 27 days ago • 315 comments

President Trump is refusing to release the guest list of his pay-to-pay crypto dinner, as his press secretary Karoline Leavitt argues that the dinner is in his “personal time." Personal time that brought in $147,586,796.41. https://trib.al/jEHleIz

submitted 27 days ago • 38 comments

Starting to wonder if we took one for global civic democracy. Electing Trump basically seems to have knee-capped every revanchist far-right candidate in the world. You're welcome, world.

submitted 31 days ago • 204 comments

Literally why the Impeachment Clause exists

submitted 45 days ago • 290 comments

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

submitted 45 days ago • 102 comments

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

submitted 81 days ago • 137 comments

Krugman today

submitted 52 days ago • 4 comments

Goodnight humans 🌊 🌊 Be kind and smile more

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

ICYMI: Georgetown Law students made a 853-row spreadsheet of Trump-caving firms. It drew national headlines. Recruiters noticed some talent looked elsewhere. Firms lobbied to change their designation. An organizer tells @www.AllRiseNews.com the background www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-st...

submitted 55 days ago • 70 comments

Went to a protest today and I have to tell you what is getting people most amped up is not tariffs not cuts not any single thing. It's democracy itself. This was a crowd cheering the founders, cheering the Constitution, waving the flag. Don't know why so many in the consultant class can't see that.

submitted 60 days ago • 8 comments

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

submitted 64 days ago • 1256 comments

We're in a car driven by somebody who is blackout drunk. A clip from today's @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social:

submitted 71 days ago • 23 comments

I just want to reiterate that the White House Press Secretary — predictably but notably — lied through her teeth about this when asked.

submitted 71 days ago • 77 comments

If fraud and abuse are so out of control, where are the lawsuits? Where are the arrests? If it were real, they’d be parading the perpetrators—not just pushing headlines. Treat the so-called fraudsters like they do suspected gang members with soccer ball tattoos.

submitted 78 days ago • 269 comments

Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc. Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight? scienceimpacts.org H/T to Prathima !

submitted 82 days ago • 926 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 86 days ago • 329 comments

my takeaway from reading this is that i have to assume that every half-competent intelligence agency in the world has an almost real-time glimpse into what the white house and the pentagon are doing

submitted 87 days ago • 423 comments